the Chair, the Chapel and Richard Scales: May God Rest His Soul!

True Story; In 1956, Richard Scales half beaten to death by police

was sentenced to the electric chair for whistling at a White

woman . . . and the band played on.

Didn't Fernand Leger have a cubist period? Also, I'm thinking of an Italian. Boccioni?

Powerful image, great allegory. Let's have some more abstracts.

Thanks Ransford; didn't know you saw this one . . .

An excellent piece of art, I maight say.

Is somenthing that you did? or PS?

What are we looking here, I mean, sorry for my ignorance, it seems like a painting.

I am a painter on an enterprising quest to find the nexus between Photoshop CS2 and traditional painting media. More and more I am discovering techniques with the software that satisfy my passion for painting, painting textures and media such as watercolour---and I do not use the watercolour filters in the software to achieve the watercolour effect. Photoshop is also an excellent medium for exploring color and form replication---a feat that would take many hours with drawing or painting media on canvas, paper or some other surface. I have learned as much about painting and compositional possibilities from using Photoshop as I have applied painting and composition elements of design to my photographic manipulations using the software. Hope this answers your question and thanks again for your comments and support.

Like your comment for Gustavo. I haven't painted for a couple of years, while my PS skills have, IMO, advanced significantly. I intend to get back to my watercolors and see if I have learned anything. Actually one of my goals was to combine watercolors and PS. I would hesitate to post such on PN, since it's not photography and it's not exactly painting, but closer to the latter.

The watercolor filter in PS is really lame, as are most of the 'artistic' filters but once in awhile one of them is useful.

BTW, I was intrigued by your comment the other day that shadows were 'intimate.' I've been pondering that ever since. Would you care to comment further?

Thanks for the complement. Please see my comment regarding the intimacy of shadows on the "House on Fifth Avenue" series.